University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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Enrmvr Hrwihmm. WM. M. BLACKBURN, D. D.. LL. D. h h 7 ILLIAM MAXWELL BLACKBURN was born near Carlisle, Ind., December 30th, 1828. His boyhood days were spent in Indiana. At the age of twenty- one he received the M. A. degree from Har- vard College, Indiana, He then took up study for the Ministry. graduating from Princeton Seminary in 1854. After this he tilled vari- ous pulpits in eastern cities, and at the same time began to be known as a lecturer and an author. In 1862 he traveled in Europe in order to study church history, and in the next year became pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian church of Trenton, New Jersey. At this time he began the publication of various religious and historical works. He was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by Princeton, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Worcester University. In 1868 he became Professor of Ecclesiastical and Church History in the Theological Seminary 0f the Northwest. Where his reputation became na- tional. After thirteen years of earnest work here he resigned, and soon after accepted the pastorate of the Central Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. In the summer of $44 Dr. Blackburn came to Dakota and spent the season at Devils Lake for his health. in the fall of that year he was offered the presidency of the Unie versity of North Dakota, which was at that time just ready to open its doors. He ac- cepted this position and served faithfully during the first year of our Universitys existence. The following; year Dr. Blackburn became president of the Presbyterian Synodical College, at Pierre, South Dakota After having filled this position for thirteen years, he resigned it on account of failing health, the same year in which the institution was re- moved to Huron. Dr. Blackburn was then chosen president emeritus with the chair of Mental, Moral and Political Sciences, and Geology. At the end of the first term of the collegiate year, 1898, he went to his home at Pierre, where death suddenly overtook him and he passed on to the great Beyond, on the eve of his seventieth birthday. The University is indeed highly favored to have had such a gifted and noted scholar as Dr. Blackburn connected with its early history. 16

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V ing and the President's House in 1903. J11 1899 the Law School was estal , lished with temporary quarters in Grand Forks: and with H011 G. C. H. Cor- liss, recently Chief Justice of the State, as Dean. In IQOI the Colleges of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering were established, and the College of iXiining Engineering tthe State School of Minesa, provided for by the Cow stitution 0f the State, was first opened. At present the Faculty numbers eleven full professors, seven assistant professors, and eighteen instructors and lecturers, a total of thirty-six mem- bers of the teaching staff as against four in 1884. During the same time the student enrollment has increased from seventymine to almost an even hve hundred. The graduates number about two hundred fifty. The one man whose life has been more Chisely identified with the growth of the University than that of any other man, is Mr. William Budge. Vx'hen the existence of the University was threatened by the Governorts veto in 1895, Mr. hulge came to the rescue and raised sufficient funds by popular sub- eeription to tide the institution over until the state again assumed its support in 1997. In recognition of his great services to the University, a bill was passed by the last Iriegislature, and signed by the Governor, making Mr. Budge a life member of the hard of Trustees-wan hunor unparalleled in this country exceptiin the ease of John S Pillsbury, Whom the State, of Minnesota made, a life member of the University Board of that state. The University has thus far organized twelve distinct departments and offers more than one hundred fifty courses Of instruction. There are at pres- ent eight buildings on the Liniversity campus. The entire plant of the Uni- versity is valued at more than $325,000. The University has received from the Federal tkwernment 126,080 acres of land, of Which 19,763 acres have been sold at a net return of about $325,000. and 96,317 acres remain unsold. The entire net income of the Univermty for the present year is not far from $80: 000. It is estimated that the University lands will eventually yield not less than J52000,.000. Illllltllllllillliii H ! nu ' .uunn I Iii

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HENRY MONTGOMERY, M. A., Ph. B. ceived his early education in the public schools of Ontario, and in Upper Can- ada College. From the latter institu- tion he went to the University of Toronto, Where he received the degree of B. A. in 1876 and that of M. A. in 1877, also receiving a scholarship and a medal in general science and winning highest honors in Geology, Miner- alogy and Biology He was also given the de- gree of B. S. by Victoria University. After graduation he became the Science Master of the Toronto City Collegiate Institute. He studied for three years in the Medical Department of Toronto University, of whose medical teaching staff he was for five years a member. He also studied for three months at Johns Hopkins University. In 1884 he entered upon his duties as Pryo- fessor of Natural Sciences and Vice President of the University of North Dakota, Where he labored assiduously for live years, and was, during two years of this time, acting Presi- dent of the institution. While connected with this University he explored the Black Hills extensively and made very valuable collections of minerals and fossils through- out the Dakotas. 111 1887, during a tornado Which partly destroyed the Main Building of the University, Professor Montgomery had the misfortune to lose a great many of the specimens Which he had collected. i In 1889 he resigned his chair here to accept a similar position in the New York State Normal and Training School at Cortland. He resigned from the Cortland Normal in 1890 to accept the position of Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Curator of Museum, and Superintendent of the Mining Department in the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. While connected with this institution he traveled extensively over the Territory 010W Statei of Utah, carrying on a very profitable work of exploration and investiga- tion. In 1894 he resigned this position and returned to Toronto as head of the Depart- ment of Geology and Biology in the Trinity University, Where he is still situated. Besides his regular classroom and laboratory duties. Professor Montgomery has prepared numerous papers and lectures upon educational and scientific subjects which have had an extensive circulation. He has made a specialty of investigating the remains of prehistoric man upon this continent, especially in Utah and the Dakotas. His dis- coveries in this science and in paleontology have been favorably noticed by eminent scientists. Professor Montgomery has many friends throughout North Dakota who remember With appreciation his services at our University during the early years of its existence. PROFESSOR HENRY MONTGOMERY re- 17